According to the U.S. Mint, this wartime recipe was later replaced, and today’s five-cent coins are made of nickel (25%) and copper (75%). READ ALSO: These five coins will see their value ...

With few exceptions, copper coins in the U.S. mean one-cent pennies — usually those ... and many more are worth five or six figures. The value of copper coins, as in all coins, is based on ...

Dimes, for example, only cost about 5 cents to make (5.76 cents ... nickels are simply a mixture of metals, nickel and copper, formed into the shape of the coin. At one time, the materials used ...

You don’t need to be a coin ... to save copper for the war effort. However, a few were mistakenly made of bronze, and these are extremely rare and valuable. Made of 95% copper and 5% tin and ...

President Trump has ordered the government to stop making pennies, calling the coins "wasteful." Would Arizona, a copper-producing state, be impacted?